Registered sex offender arrested for indecent behavior with a juvenile

LAKE CHARLES, LA (WAFB) - The Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office reports the arrest of a registered sex offender on new charges of indecent behavior with a juvenile and failing to register as a sex offender.

Deputies were called to a mobile home park in Lake Charles on December 13 on a complaint that 38-year-old Luther Deel was having inappropriate sexual contact with an 8-year-old girl that lives in the same mobile home park.

Deputies also discovered Deel failed to provide his full address on his Louisiana sex offender identification card.

According to the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office, Deel was convicted of sexual battery of a 7-year-old girl in February 2003.